Aethelwold Aetheling

Aethelwold Aetheling (died 13 December 902) was the son of King Aethelred of Wessex and the nephew of King Alfred the Great. In 902, upset at being passed over for the throne by Alfred's son Edward the Elder, he launched a rebellion with the support of the Danes of Northymbre, but he was killed at the Battle of the Holme.

Biography
Aethelwold was the second son of King Aethelred of Wessex, and he was an immature youth; in 871, his father decided that he was an unfit heir, as he had been caught drunkenly asleep in the Winchester royal palace gardens twice in one week. His uncle Alfred instead became king, and, on Alfred's death in 899, Aethelwold made a bid for the throne. Aethelwold fled to the Danes of Northymbre and gained their support for an invasion of Wessex; he also allied with Eohric of East Anglia. On 13 December 902, his army of Danes was victorious over a Kentish force loyal to King Edward the Elder of Wessex in the Battle of the Holme, but both Aethelwold and Eohric were killed in battle, ending the rebellion and the war.